According to the word of the Bible, God made Adam and Eve thus creating the concept of genders.

Now a vote has been taken by a leading European church that the creator should no longer be referred to as a man.

After a long debate, a decision has been made by The Church of Sweden to scrap gender-specific terms - asking clergy to swap terms like "Lord" and "He" in favour of the less specific "God" when referring to the supreme deity.

Morgan Freeman, a man, famously played God in hit movie Bruce Almighty, while Alanis Morissette took on the role in the film Dogma.

The move is one of several taken by the national Evangelical Lutheran church in updating a 31-year-old handbook setting out how services should be conducted in terms of language, liturgy, hymns and other aspects.

It took an eight-day meeting of the church's 251-member decision-making body to come to the decision.

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Christer Pahlmblad, an associate theology professor with Sweden's Lund University, told Denmark's Kristeligt Dagblad that the move was "undermining the doctrine of the Trinity and the community with the other Christian churches".

"It really isn't smart if the Church of Sweden becomes known as a church that does not respect the common theology heritage," he said.